After his Grammy Awards performance on Sunday, MTV News caught up with, Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker and threw him through a gauntlet of questions mostly directed towards the bands much-anticipated upcoming album. The word on the street has been that the album was going to release in 2011, while others have heard that it will be coming out sooner. But according to Barker the band has to finish their own side-projects before they start working on the next Blink album.

“We’re about to start working on it. I’m gonna try to wrap up my album and, uh, Tom has his band, he’s wrapping up that album, and then we’ll start working on a Blink record.”

It has been nearly 7 years since the band’s last album was released in 2003, and it will be interesting to see what kind of sound they bring to the table nearly a decade later. Judging by Sunday’s performance with Lil’ Wayne, Eminem, and Drake, I think it’s safe to say that Barker still has the sound that can keep up with the music of today.

All in all, it seems as if we’ll have to play the waiting game until we find out.

Check out the full interview here.

According to ads on Craigslist (which can be found here or here) and Exploretalent.com (click here), there is an open casting call for those to play Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus, and Travis Barker -better known as Blink 182 – in a movie based on the band’s beginning years. The ads also call upon actors/actresses to portray the people that were involved in Blink’s world, including their wives, manager, and even their OLD drummer Scott Raynor.

Taken from Craigslist-

The title of the film is “Blink” it will mostly be about the beginning years of Blink with some Blink-182 stuff thrown in there.

The first part of the film will be thru the eyes of Tom. and later be seen threw all three band members. [notice how they spelled "thru" and "threw" instead of "through."]

Main Characters:

Thomas Matthew Delonge (Tom): 15-17, Caucasian, Tom has a prankster personality with a “get-go” attitude and a bit of a sensitive/random side.

Mark Allan Hoppus (Mark): 17-20, Caucasian, Mark has a laid back personality with a “class-clown” attitude and random.

Scott William Raynor (Scott): 14-17, Caucasian, Scott has a loner personality with a “nice guy” attitude and pretty shy.

Travis Landon Barker (Travis): 19-23, Caucasian, Travis has a bit of a “shy guy” personality but he’s not afraid to try anything.

As a tear falls from down my cheek I can’t help to think how happy I am that Blink 182 is back together, and not only are they back, but they’re back with authority. Blink 182, who had been broken up for 4 years before their current reunion, have been all over the headlines recently. With so much news circulating, here is a recap of what has happened in the last few weeks:

Blink 182 will be touring this summer with with the one and only Weezer and Fallout Boy

Edit: On various dates there will also be supports from Panic at the Disco, All-American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth and Chester French.

Tickets will be selling for $20-$60